Scott M. Bilyeu is chief financial officer, chief operating officer, and chief compliance officer of Triangle Peak Partners, LP. He has spent the majority of his career managing the accounting and back office operations of investment management firms. Prior to joining Triangle Peak, Scott was the chief financial officer for Abingdon Capital Management, a McLean, Virginia-based hedge fund serving the investment needs of institutions and high net worth individuals. While there he introduced a number of refinements to the firm’s operations and control environment.

From October 1995 to January 2005, he worked for EGM Capital, a registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager located in San Francisco. He began his career with EGM as its controller, primarily focusing on the accounting and related activities of the management company. He later became the firm’s chief financial officer, responsible for all financial aspects of the firm, including the establishment and maintenance of operational and financial controls for the firm’s pooled investment funds.

Previously, Scott was an internal auditor for Allstate Insurance Corp. He also was an audit and tax associate for Clifton, Gunderson & Co., a nationwide accounting and consulting firm based in Peoria, Illinois.

Scott received a B.A. in Accounting from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1993 and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Dain F. DeGroff is a co-founding partner of Triangle Peak Partners, LP and serves as President. He has significant experience working with private and public companies, providing strategic, process, and financing solutions. Prior to Triangle Peak, he served as a Managing Director with Fort Mason Capital, where he conducted private, direct investments in private and public companies, focusing on the technology, alternative energy, and energy sectors.

Prior to Fort Mason, Dain was an investment banker at both Hambrecht & Quist and JP Morgan, where he executed numerous M&A, debt and equity transactions in the technology sector and also led both firms’ global efforts in mobile and wireless technologies. Prior to his banking experience, he was a consultant for Accenture Consulting in its technology practice. Before entering the workforce, Dain completed the U.S. Navy’s Nuclear Engineering program and served as a U.S. Navy Submarine officer on a fast-attack submarine.

He serves as a board member for Stitch Labs and as a board observer for PCH International, Ping Identity, Sojern, Prism Skylabs, Takelessons, Snaplogic, Vidyo and Achates Power.

He received an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.

Dain serves on the Investment Committee of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International and on the Stanford University DAPER (Athletics Department) Investment Fund.

Zach P. Kaufman joined Triangle Peak Partners, LP in April 2009. Prior to joining Triangle Peak, Zach was a senior associate with Perry-Smith, LLP, a regional public accounting firm based in Sacramento, California, where he lead audit teams serving clients in the governmental, construction, manufacturing, non-profit, and financial industries.

He began his career in accounting as office manager for M & K Builders, Inc., a construction company in California’s Central Valley.

Zach received his B.A. in Accounting from University of the Pacific in 2006 and is a Certified Public Accountant.

James T. McCartt joined Triangle Peak Partners, LP in June 2008. He brings experience in two areas to the firm. As an attorney with Baker Botts LLP, then as a partner with Susman Godfrey LLP in Houston, and as a partner with Hosie McArthur LLP in San Francisco, Jim has practiced substantial business litigation. He has also worked as an equity analyst with Fayez Sarofim & Co., where he primarily covered firms in the financial sector.

Jim received an A.B. in Economics from Harvard College, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and an M.B.A. from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He is a member of the state bar associations of Texas and California. Jim is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

Kyle S. Mills joined Triangle Peak Partners, LP in September 2015. Prior to joining Triangle Peak, Kyle served as a financial analyst at ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) supporting South America offshore exploration. Most recently, he coordinated and implemented prospect specific financial strategies as a member of the Guyana and Brazil operations teams.

Kyle received his B.B.A. in Finance, Economics, and Entrepreneurship from Baylor University. While at Baylor, Kyle served as an energy sector analyst for the Phillip M. Dorr Alumni Investment Fund and corporate strategy intern with Tesoro (NYSE: TSO).

Michael C. Morgan is a co-founding partner of Triangle Peak Partners, LP and serves as its chairman and chief executive officer. Since 2004, he has served as president and chief executive officer of Portcullis Partners, LP, a private investment partnership and one of Triangle Peak’s largest limited partners. He also serves as the lead director of Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE: KMI) which is the largest energy infrastructure company in North America, owning an interest in or operating over 80,000 miles of pipelines and 180 terminals. Mike joined Kinder Morgan at its founding in early 1997 and headed Kinder Morgan’s corporate development efforts until 2001, completing 23 acquisitions worth over $5 billion. He then served as president of KMI until 2004.

Mike received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and both a B.A. in Economics and an M.A. in Sociology from Stanford University.

Mike has represented TPP on the boards of Bunchball, Lytx, and SCIenergy. Mike is a frequent volunteer at Stanford University, currently serving on the GSB Management Board, the Precourt Energy Institute, the DAPER Fund, and several ad hoc committees. He has previously served on the boards of two public energy funds affiliated with Kayne Anderson (NYSE: KYN and KYE) and as an Adjunct Professor in the Practice of Management at the Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University in Houston.

David L. Pesikoff is a co-founding partner of Triangle Peak Partners, LP and serves as president. He was a principal at Fayez Sarofim & Co. from 1998 until early 2008, first joining the company in 1994. The Sarofim firm is one of the largest private investment counselors in the country with over $30 billion under management when David left to found Triangle Peak Partners. He had most recently served as the firm’s portfolio strategist as well as head of its financials research team. Over the previous decade, he covered a series of industries globally, including retail, health care, insurance, banks and brokers, telecom, and information technology. In addition, he led many of the firm’s private investments in a range of technology companies, including eHarmony, Trulia, eGain, Avantgo, Astro Gaming, and Uplogix. From 1990 to 1992, he was a management consultant with Gemini Consulting and with Bain & Co.

He is on the board of Kurtosys and serves as a board observer of Guardian Analytics, Sunnova, and TheSquareFoot.

David obtained an M.B.A. from Stanford University and graduated Cum Laude from Williams College with a B.A. with Honors in Mathematics. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

David is a Class Agent for Williams having previously served as Co-Chair of the Williams College Alumni Fund as well as a Head Class Agent. He is also an Assistant Scoutmaster for Boy Scout Troop 55, sponsored by St. John the Divine Church in Houston, Texas, where he runs the aquatics and cycling programs.

Tyler Peterson joined Triangle Peak Partners, LP in 2014 as Vice President. Prior to Triangle Peak, he spent seven years at Google where he held various product strategy and finance positions. Most recently, he focused on new product development for YouTube monetization. Additionally, he has led strategy and finance groups in the Google+ and Google Maps businesses.

Earlier in his career, Tyler worked across a variety of Google products including: AdWords, AdSense, Gmail, Google Checkout, Google TV Ads, and more. He has advised country managers how to scale teams internationally, built new products from idea to hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, and been a lead analyst on multi-billion dollar businesses

He is also a Mentor for Acceleprise, a Washington DC based accelerator focused on enterprise technology.

Tyler graduated from Claremont McKenna College with a BA in Economics and History, and he holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson.

Noah Yago joined Triangle Peak Partners, LP November of 2013 as partner. Noah has a 15 year track record as a technology investor and entrepreneur. He spent the last four years in Israel as a Principal with JVP, a $900mm VC that was named by peHub/Prequin as one of the world’s top-ten best performing funds.

He played key roles in two of Israel’s largest recent exits – managing JVP’s role in the IPO of big data company Qlik Technologies (NASDAQ:QLIK), and leading the investment in and the subsequent sale of CyOptics, an optical components manufacturer, to Avago (NASDAQ:AVGO). Yago has served on several boards for JVP, was instrumental in raising the group’s latest fund, and managed many of the firm’s international deal sourcing efforts and business relationships.

Noah joined JVP from Millennium Technology Ventures, a NY based secondary fund, where he was a Vice President. He was previously an Associate at Veronis Suhler Stevenson, a $3bn private equity fund focused on the technology, media, and telecommunications space.

Yago’s non-profit activities include advisory roles with DreamIt Ventures (Israel), and with SEAF/CEED, a 25 year old impact investment organization that promotes global entrepreneurship in over 20 emerging markets.

Noah holds an MBA from Stanford, and a BA from Tufts, where he majored in Computer Science and in German Language & Literature.